acronyms.comp revision 1.33
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.33 2004/01/14 00:11:53 grant Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 5ADC analog [to] digital converter 6AGP accelerated graphics port 7ANSI American National Standards Institute 8API application programming interface 9ARP address resolution protocol 10APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 11AT advanced technology 12ATA advanced technology attachment 13ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 14ATX advanced technology extended 15BEDO burst extended data output 16BGP border gateway protocol 17BIOS basic input/output system 18BLOB binary large object 19BSD berkeley software distribution 20CAD computer-aided design 21CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 22CD compact disc 23CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 24CGA color graphics array 25CGI common gateway interface 26CHS cylinder/head/sector 27CIDR classless inter-domain routing 28CLI command line interface 29CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 30CPU central processing unit 31CRLF carriage return line feed 32CRT cathode ray tube 33CSS cascading style sheets 34CVS concurrent versions system 35DAC digital [to] analog converter 36DDC display data channel 37DDR double data rate 38DDWG digital display working group 39DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 40DMA direct memory access 41DNS domain name system 42DRAM dynamic random access memory 43DSL digital subscriber line 44DTD document type definition 45DVD digital versatile disc 46DVI digital visual interface 47ECP enhanced capability port 48EDID extended display identification data 49EDO extended data out 50EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 51EGA enhanced graphics array 52EISA extended industry standard architecture 53EPP enhanced parallel port 54EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 55ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 56FAT file allocation table 57FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 58FFS fast file system 59FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 60FPM fast page mode 61FQDN fully qualified domain name 62FTP file transfer protocol 63GIF graphics interchange format 64GNU gnu's not unix 65GPL gnu/general public license 66GPU graphics processing unit 67GUI graphics user interface 68HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 69HTML hyper-text markup language 70HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 71I2O intelligent input/output 72IANA internet assigned number authority 73IC integrated circuit 74ICB internet citizen's band 75ICMP internet control message protocol 76IDE integrated drive electronics 77IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 78IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 79IESG internet engineering steering group 80IETF internet engineering task force 81IKE internet key exchange 82IMAP internet mail access protocol 83INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 84IO input/output 85IOCTL input/output control 86IP internet protocol 87IPNG internet protocol, next generation 88IPSEC internet protocol security 89IRC internet relay chat 90IRQ interrupt request 91IRTF internet research task force 92ISA industry standard architecture 93ISDN integrated services digital network 94ISO International Standards Organization 95ISOC internet society 96ISP internet service provider 97JPEG joint photographic experts group 98KVA kernel virtual address 99LAN local area network 100LBA logical block addressing 101LCD liquid crystal display 102LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 103LED light emitting diode 104LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 105LUN logical unit number 106MAC media access control 107MBR master boot record 108MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 109MIDI musical instrument digital interface 110MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 111MIPS million instructions per second 112MMU memory management unit 113MPEG moving picture experts group 114MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 115MTA mail transfer agent 116MTU maximum transmission unit 117MUA mail user agent 118NAT network address translation 119NFS networking file system 120NIC network interface card 121NIS network information service 122NUMA non uniform memory access 123OEM original equipment manufacturer 124OTP one time password 125PAX portable archive exchange 126PCI peripheral component interconnect 127PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 128PDP page descriptor page 129PERL practical extraction [and] report language 130PGP pretty good privacy 131PIC programmable interrupt controller 132PID process id 133PIO programmed input/output 134PNG portable network graphics 135POP post office protocol 136POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 137POST power on self test 138PPP point-to-point protocol 139PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 140PROM programmable read only memory 141PTE page table entry 142PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 143PTP page table page 144RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 145RAM random access memory 146RCS revision control system 147RFC request for comments 148RGB red green blue 149RISC reduced instruction set computing 150ROM read only memory 151RPM revolutions per minute 152RTF rich text format 153S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 154SACD super audio compact disc 155SAM serial access memory 156SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 157SATA serial advanced technology attachment 158SCSI small computer system interface 159SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 160SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 161SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 162SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 163SMP symmetric multiprocessing 164SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 165SNMP simple network management protocol 166SPD serial presence detect 167SRAM static random access memory 168SSH secure shell 169SSL secure sockets layer 170SVGA super video graphics array 171TCL tool command language 172TCP transmission control protocol 173TFT thin film transistor 174TIFF tagged image file format 175TLA top level aggregator 176TLB transition lookaside buffer 177TLD top level domain 178TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 179TTY teletype 180TZ time zone 181UC uncacheable 182UDP user datagram protocol 183UPS uninterruptible power supply 184URI uniform resource identifier 185URL uniform resource locator 186USB universal serial bus 187USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 188UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 189VAX virtual address extension 190VCM virtual channel memory 191VESA video electronics standards association 192VGA video graphics array 193VM virtual memory 194VPN virtual private network 195VRAM video random access memory 196WAN wide area network 197WAP wireless application protocol 198WRAM window random access memory 199WWW world wide web 200XGA extended graphics array 201XML extensible markup language 202XSL extensible stylesheet language 203XT extended technology 204